 | School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream : And a long shout of triumph Eose from the walls of Eome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow...burst the curb, and bounded, Rejoicing to be free, And whirling down, in fierce career, Battlement, and plank, and pier, Rushed headlong to the sea. Alone... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream ; And a 1опд shout of triumph Rose from the walls ue-hoss shay, That was built * of a sudden, it — ah, but stay, I '11 tell you what hap Rejoicing to be free ; And whirling down, in fierce career, Battlement and plank and pier, Rushed headlong... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - Elocution - 1872 - 460 pages
...dam, the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream : And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam. Alone stood brave Horatius, But constant still in mind; Thrice thirty thousand foes before, And the... | |
 | Readers - 1872 - 514 pages
...dam, the mighty wreck lay right athwart the stream And a long shout of triumph rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops was splashed the yellow foam. Alone stood brave Horatius, but constant still in mind ; Thrice thirty thousand foes before, and the... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1873 - 348 pages
...dam, the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream : And a long shout of triumph Eose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-.tops Was splashed...burst the curb, and bounded, Rejoicing to be free; And whirling down, in fierce career, Battlement, and plank, and pier, Rushed headlong to the sea. Alone... | |
 | William Bedell Stanford - 1873 - 122 pages
...triumph •Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret tops Was splashed the yellow foam. LVI. And, like a horse unbroken, When first he feels the...burst the curb, and bounded, Rejoicing to be free, And, whirling down in fierce career Battlement and plank and pier, Rushed headlong to the sea. LVII.... | |
 | J. Fogerty - 1873 - 392 pages
...the same time Rebecca Field died, and was buried in the Quaker's cemetery. CHAPTER LI. THE FLOOD. " And, like a horse unbroken When first he feels the...tossed his tawny mane, And burst the curb, and bounded, Eejoicing to be free ; And whirling down, in fierce career, Battlement, and plank, and pier, Hushed... | |
 | William Morley Punshon - Sermons, English - 1873 - 400 pages
...dam, the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream ; And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam. "Alone stood brave Horatius, But constant still in mind ; Thrice thirty thousand foes before, And the... | |
 | George Walter Baynham - 1873 - 344 pages
...dam, the mighty wreck lay right athwart the stream : And a long shout of triumph rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops was splashed the yellow foam. Alone stood brave Horatius, — but constant still in mind, — Thrice thirty thousand foes before,... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1874 - 296 pages
...dam, the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream : And a long shout of triumph Hose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed...burst the curb, and bounded, Rejoicing to be free, And whirling down, in fierce career, Battlement, and plank, and pier, Rushed headlong to the sea. Alone... | |
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But with a crash like thunder Fell every loosened beam, And like a dam the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream ; And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam. 
